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TABLE OF COWTEKL'S STATEMENT OF ISSUES ........................,.............*~ STATEMENT OF THE CASE ..................................... SUMHARY OF ARGUMENT......................................2 STATEMENT OF FACTS ....................................... 3 I. THE COURT'S ALLOWANCE OF A MEDICAL EXAMINER AND A DNA ANALYST WE0 DID NOT PERFORM THE ORIGINAL EXAMINATIONS AND TESTING WAS ERROR.................16 11. TKLS COURT'S REMovAt OF A DEADLOCKED DELIBERATING JUROR WAS REVERSIBLE ERROR. ........................ 23 111. THE COURT COMMITTED REVERSIBLEERROR WHEN IT FOUND MCCOWEN'S UNRECORDED STATEMENT VOLUNThRY...........33 IV. THE COURT'S DENTAL OF THE DEFENDANT'S MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL BASED UPON JUROR MISCONDUCT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ALLOWED ............................................ 39 V. TBE COURT ERRED IN DENYING TEE DEFENDANT'S MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL BASED ON Tm COMMONWEALTH'S WITHHOLDING OF EXCULPATORY EVIDENCE............................47 VI. THE COURT ERRED IN DENYING TEE DEFENDANT'S MOTION TO DISMISS THE INDICTMENTS BOTH BEFORE AND AFTER THE PRESENTATION OF EVIUENCE...........,...........55 VII. MEDIA FRENZY MANDATED CHANGE OF VENUE/ SEQUESTRATION ...................................... 57 VIII.WRETHER TEE COURT ERRED IN THE RESTRICTION OF DR. BROWN'S TESTIMONY AND ADMISSION OF BAD ACTS EVIDENCE....................................*..--..59 IX. THESE VERDICTS SHOULD BE REVERSED PURSUANT TO G.L. c. 21% 833E ................................... 62 CONCLUSION .............................................. 65 ADDENDUM CERTIFICATE OF COMPLIANCE
TABLE OF CASES Commonwealth v. DiGiambattista 442 Mass. 423 (2004) ............................ 7,34,35,37 Commonwealth v. Garrey 436 Mass. 422 (2002) ............................ 14,23,32~3 Commonwealth v. Connor 392 Mass. 838 (1984) ............................... 14,26-9 Commonwealth v. Haywood 377 Mass. 755 (1979) ........................ 14,23,26-27,29 Crawford v. Washington 541 U.S. 36, 42 (2004) .................................. 17 Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts 129 S . Ct. 2527 (2009) ............................ 17-22.53 Commonwealth v. Nardi 452 Mass. 379 (2008) .............................. 17-8,20 Commonwealth v. AviLa 454 Mass. 774 (2a09)... ................................. 17 Commonwealth v. Gonsalves 445 Mass. 1 (2005) ...................................... ~8 Commonwealth v. Diaz 453 Mass. 266 (2009) ............................ 19,34-5,38 Chapman v. California 386 U.S. 18 (1967) ...................................... 19 Commonwealth v. Pena 455 Mass. 1 (2009) ...................................... 20 People v. Dungo 98 Cal. Rptr.3d 702 (Cal. App. 36 Dist, 2009) ........ 20,53 Commonwealth v. Verde 444 Mass. 279 (2005)......... ........................ .21-2 Commonwealth v. Connolly 454 Mass. 808 (2009) .................................... 22 United States v. Lamb 529F. 2d. 1153 (9- Cir. 1975) ........................... 26
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